habitudo

A New Latin Dictionary by Charlton T. Lewis Ph.D. and Charles Short, LL. D.

hăbĭtūdo, ĭnis, f. [habitus, P. a., from habeo],

condition , plight , habit , appearance , figure of the body (mostly ante- and postclass., for the class. habitus): qui color, nitor, vestitus, quae habitudo est corporis! * Ter. Eun. 242; cf.: bona corporis, Auct. Her. 4, 10, 15: habitus atque habitudo, dress and figure , Ap. Met. 9, 39, 8: ancillae, id. ib. 2, 8, 3.— Plur. : tam varias habitudines corporis participat, Ap. Mag. p. 282, 29.

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